Ezekiel 48:15

The remaining area, 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, will be for common use by the city, for houses, and for pastureland. The city will be in the center of it

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The prophet Ezekiel describes the final territorial allocations of the restored land, specifying the spatial arrangement of the sanctuary, priestly portion, and urban center.

The words — הַנּוֹתָר (ha./no.Tar) means "the remaining," and בָּרֹחַב (ba./Ro.chav) means "in breadth," identifying the leftover tract after all sacred portions are assigned.

The thread — The identical 5,000 by 25,000 cubit measurement appears in Ezekiel 45:6 as the city's designated property, while Ezekiel 22:26 condemns failing to distinguish between holy and common land.

Why it lands — It defines a fixed secular zone surrounding the holy center, requiring readers to recognize that civic and domestic life must operate within strictly bounded, non-sacred space.

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The Hebrew words

וַחֲמֵ֨שֶׁתva./cha.Me.shetand/ five אֲלָפִ֜ים'a.la.Fimthousand [cubits]הַנּוֹתָ֣רha./no.Tarwhich/ remain בָּרֹ֗חַבba./Ro.chavin the/ breadth עַל־'al-on פְּנֵ֨יpe.Nei[the] face of חֲמִשָּׁ֤הcha.mi.Shahfive וְעֶשְׂרִים֙ve./'es.Rimand/ twenty אֶ֔לֶף'E.lefthousand [cubits]חֹֽל־chol-[will be] a profane area ה֣וּאhu'it לָעִ֔ירla./'Irfor the/ city לְמוֹשָׁ֖בle./mo.Shavfor/ dwelling place וּלְמִגְרָ֑שׁu./le./mig.Rashand/ for/ open land וְהָיְתָ֥הve./ha.ye.Tahand/ it will be הָעִ֖ירha./'Irthe/ city בְּתוֹכֽוֹ׃be./to.kh/oin/ [the] middle of/ it

King James Version

And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

Cross-references

Ezekiel 42:20 So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
Ezekiel 45:6 As the property of the city, you are to set aside an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the holy district. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Ezekiel 44:23 They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
1 Timothy 3:15 in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.